Oily Tonga guy trained for just over a year. He legitimately tried to learn his sport and legitimately got good enough to (barely) scrape by and qualify. This lady had to find a way to claim close enough relation to qualify in a different country by taking advantage of a loophole in the system that allowed someone to…

Yeah, I think she was trying to do a version like Marvin Gaye’s classic 1983 NBA All-Star Game version. She shouldn’t have done that.

Ok fine, so if the real number is 10 instead of 18. Is that ok to you? You’re telling me that it’s ok that innocent children are being murdered in their school “as long as it’s only 10 times in 46 days, not 18.” GTFOH.

Agreed, TFA should take the blame for the hermit angle.

For the record, I mostly liked TLJ, but I also agree with most of what you’re saying here.

Point taken, the original wasn’t the most challenging movie, but there are a few moments. Really, you could argue that creating the whole universe of an intergalactic war, a mystical force, jedi knights, laser swords, robots that walk & talk, spacecraft flying at lightspeed, massive space stations that can destroy…

Really? There’s still a First Order. We still don’t know if or how the Jedi will be reborn. We still have Leia and her son on opposite sides of the battle field. The internal struggle within Kylo between light and dark, good and evil is far from tied up.

I don’t think the movie being challenging automatically makes it great. But I can’t think of a single great movie that doesn’t challenge the audience in some way.

But there’s always been artificial gravity in space ships. It’s what made Rose’s sister need the launch button to fall to her. Why would this gravity not still exist when the bomb door opened?

I am curious to see how he’s recovered from being so heinously Melvin’d.

There are a few in there. The one that strikes me most from TLJ is when DJ points out that the real winners in this (or any) war are the people who make the weapons.

I’m half with you. But I wouldn’t call those teaser scenes irrelevant. Those scenes still built the impact of the reveal. The impact wasn’t a grand culmination of Force lineage, the impact was the let-down that we as an audience and Rey herself felt when she confronted the truth. It’s not misdirection if you don’t…

I took it as: “Don’t worry about them, they don’t matter. Worry about you.” Then the part where she was snapping and watching the ripple effects go down the line was about how she was in control of what happens next. That she is in control of her destiny.

Starkiller Base doesn’t have to travel though. It was my understanding that its weapon moved faster than light, and could essentially hit any planet anywhere without having to actually aim at it from a (relatively) close distance unlike the Death Star(s).

His whole premise, while obvious, also turned out to not matter at all. The Patriots were playing from behind for most of the game.

“Son of a son of a bitch!”

Club Dread was great. On a second viewing, that is. The problem is that I and everyone I know who saw it expected another Super Troopers and it was a very different movie. If you went in without those expectations though, it’s a really fun movie.

I’m amazed at how vigilant they are with parked cars too. I was out of town when my tags expired once. My car was parked on the street in front of my apartment in Chicago. I got 4 tickets in the 3 days between my tags expiring and when I got home to deal with it.

I believe they called it a “mono-ski” in the movie. They’re not dragging it, but gliding on it, presumably for stability.

Same here. It’s unlikely I’ll ever return to Paris, so I made sure to take it all in. I’m glad I did, as I know I saw some things that I didn’t know were there, and it was also good to be exposed to some art that I would not have known about or cared about until I saw it. That’s part of the fun for me. I enjoy finding…